Maid of the Bedchamber

A Maid of the Bedchamber (Danish: Kammerfrøken; German: Kammerfräulein; Russian: kamer-devitsa; Swedish: kammarfröken) was a court office for a lady-in-waiting in several European courts.

As the German court model originally included only a Chief Court Mistress and a group of maids of honours, she was often second in rank of the ladies-in-waiting between them.

The Maid of the Bedchamber was an office of high status selected from nobility.

She had often been a maid of honour before she was promoted, because of birth or royal favor.

In Sweden, the kammarfröken was the deputy of the överhovmästarinna whenever she was absent until the introduction of the office statsfru in 1774.